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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Boismortier Gentillesse in G, Op 45 No 5 Passacaglia
Soler Concerto No 1 in C for two organs Tini Mathot and Ton Koopman lbert Concertino da Camera John Harle (alto saxophone),
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
8.30-10.00: Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129 Jacqueline du Pre , New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Sullivan Symphony in E (Irish)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
John Harle
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Jacqueline du Pre
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

With Jonathan Swain.
Muffat Suite: IndissolubilisAmicitia
(Florilegium Secundum) Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.19 Gershwin My One and Only;
'S Wonderful (Funny Face); Three Preludes George Gershwin (piano)
10.31 Purcell Three Viol Fantasies
Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.41 Copland Variations Noel Lee (piano)
10.53 Bach St John Passion, BWV245
(Nos 57-68) Soloists, Vienna Boys' Choir, Chorus Viennensis, Vienna Concentus
Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
11.20 Copland Piano Sonata Leon Fleisher

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Director:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Piano:
George Gershwin
Director:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Piano:
Noel Lee
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Unknown:
Leon Fleisher

2/5. Donald Macleod investigates two disparate influences on Holst's music -
Henry Purcell and Hindu mythology, including his choral and orchestral The Cloud
Messenger, which is based on Sanskrit poetry. Hoist was a trombonist, and he wrote some of the first significant works forwind band.
His First Suite, of 1909, begins, Purcell-like, with a chaconne.
Suite No 1, Op 28 No 1
Central Band of the Royal Air Force, conductor Wg Cdr Eric Banks The Cloud Messenger, Op 30 Delia Jones (mezzo),
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Music:
Henry Purcell
Unknown:
Delia Jones
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sarah Walker presents a programme mostly consisting of French music, including Jolivet's
Percussion Concerto of 1958. Plus Stravinsky's serene ballet about the Greek god of music, commissioned by the US Library of Congress and warmly received in its Paris production by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Ravel Fairy Overture: Sheherazade Conductor Man Volkov
Jolivet Percussion Concerto
Colin Currie , conductor Baldur Bronnimann Debussy La Mer Conductor Nan Volkov Stravinsky Ballet: Apollon Musagète director Elizabeth Layton

Contributors

Conductor:
Colin Currie
Conductor:
Baldur Bronnimann
Conductor:
Nan Volkov
Director:
Elizabeth Layton

To mark the beginning of Black History Month, lain Burnside presents a selection of songs celebrating some of the best-known black singers, including Marion Anderson , Willard White , Jessye Norman and Paul Robeson.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marion Anderson
Unknown:
Willard White
Unknown:
Jessye Norman
Unknown:
Paul Robeson.

Listen Up!
Christopher Cook introduces a concert given earlierthis week at London's Royal Festival Hall. Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin),
Lynn Harrell (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur Mendelssohn Overture: RuyBlas
Brahms Double Concerto in A minor
Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)

Contributors

Introduces:
Christopher Cook
Cello:
Lynn Harrell
Conductor:
Kurt Masur

Paul Allen and guests report on the first night of the new musical adaptation by John Barry and Don Black of Graham Greene 's novel Brighton Rock, at the Almeida in London. Producer Philippa Ritchie

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
John Barry
Unknown:
Don Black
Unknown:
Graham Greene
Producer:
Philippa Ritchie

3/5. Donald Macleod looks at the Sun King's lavish entertainments at Versailles.
AD Philidor Air (Le Manage de la Grosse Cathos) London Oboe Band, director Paul Goodwin
Lully Persee , Prologue (excerpt) Soloists, Les Talens Lyriques, director Christophe Rousset
Hotteterre Deux Airs Serieux Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Jaapter Linden (viola da gamba), Konrad Junghanel (theorbo), Jacques Ogg (harpsichord) De Lalande De Profundis
Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra, director Jeffrey Skidmore
Lully Scene du Froid; Scene des Forges (Isis) Soloists, Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Director:
Paul Goodwin
Director:
Lully Persee
Director:
Christophe Rousset
Flute:
Wilbert Hazelzet
Flute:
Jaapter Linden
Unknown:
Konrad Junghanel
Harpsichord:
Jacques Ogg
Director:
William Christie

With Susan Sharpe.
Musica Ficta , conducted by Bo Holten , perform works for voices and instruments by Orlande de Lassus.
1.55 Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor
2.25 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
3.15 Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra 3.50 Sandstrom A New Heaven and a New Earth 3.55 Schumann Drei
Fantaisiestiicke, Op 73 4.10 Kuhlau Overture: The Magic Harp 4.20 Rachmaninov Aleko 's Cavatina (Aleko)
4.25 Wagner Sachs 's monologue (Die Meistersinger von Numberg) 4.30 Weber, arr anon Trumpet Concertino in C
4.40 Leonardo de Lorenzo Capriccio Brillante, Op 31
4.50 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 4 in F sharp, Op 30
5.00 Bach Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV874 (Well-
Tempered Clavier) 5.05 Lassus Die Mihi Quem Portas
5.10 Ciurlionis De Profundis 5.20 Debussy D'un Cahier d'Esquisses 5.25 Toumier Harp Sonatine, Op 30
5.45 Wilby Flight 5.50 Mozetich Affairs of the Heart
6.15 Schreker Nachtstuck (Der feme Klang)
6.30 Respighi Church Windows

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Musica Ficta
Conducted By:
Bo Holten
Unknown:
Schumann Drei
Harp:
Rachmaninov Aleko
Unknown:
Wagner Sachs
Unknown:
Schreker Nachtstuck

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